Chapter concept idea: Five Nights at Freddy’s

Next, the text-based info. For a title, I came up with a few. ‘The Mascot,’ and ‘The animatronic’ were a few, but the mascot would work better for Freddy, as he’s the main face of FNaF, and the Pizza Joint. ‘The Animatronic’ seems pretty obvious, and it would provide free space for ‘The Machine’ as a killer to come in if they wanted a different robot. Either one would be good though. In the end, I decided to go with ‘The Amalgamation’. Now, the paragraph. Since Springtrap is licensed, I decided to go through and analyse GhostFace’s paragraph to find a good structure. This is what I decided upon: Lore Introduction -> Faint description -> Arrival in the Fog. So, here is what I produced for our killer:

William Afton was an unusual worker. Calm, collected, and ALWAYS willing to interact with the children, despite not always being in the best mood. However, that all changed one fateful night. Five children had gone missing, never to turn up after weeks and weeks of searching. Ever since then, workers noticed how Afton had changed. He was.. happier, yet more erratic and was often found staring at the animatronic suits for uncomfortable amounts of time. It was a seemingly normal evening when it happened. The restaurant had been locked up and cleaned, without any problems. However, Afton returned later that night. Breaking into the restaurant, he needed to finish one final part of his plan. The children had come willingly, and put up little of a fight as he slaughtered them. After hiding them in the friendly animatronics, he needed to finish the plan. Beginning to tamper with the robots, he noticed odd figures behind him, causing disturbances. To this day, nobody knows if the man had gone mad, or if they really were the ghosts of the unsuspecting children tricked by the man in purple. Fleeing, Afton ran into a supply closet, where the malfunctioning Spring Bonnie suit lay, a deadly trap for whoever would control it. To hide from his guilt and the ghosts, Afton crawled in, unknowing of the delicate machinery. The mechanisms sprung, and Afton was instantly killed. However, the dark forces of the entity were at work that night. Afton was reborn, an amalgamation of flesh and machinery. In constant pain and rage, the serial killer could live forever, trapped inside this trap of his. Nobody ever saw Afton or the Spring Bonnie suit ever again. Limping into the fog, the machine had a new purpose - to hear everlasting screams.

Power and perks

The Amalgamation’s power is called ‘Employee’s controls’. The Amalgamation starts with 8 security cameras. Press the ability button to place a security camera against the nearest wall. When a survivor walks within 8 metres of a security camera, their aura will be highlighted for as long as they remain in radius. The security cameras are able to be dismantled in 25 seconds. The security camera is affected by perks such as Distortion. Around the map, various employee’s terminals are placed. When the Amalgamation activates a terminal, they can switch between surveillance cameras, providing them a 180 degree view of the camera. The killer will see a screen similar to the game series’ camera operating menu, with names like ‘camera 1’ and ‘camera 2’ based on the order they are placed. Springtrap can operate them for a maximum of 30 seconds before they are stunned, and locked out of the terminal for 60 seconds. 

The Amalgamation comes with three teachable perks:

A killer’s addiction: Killing can prove to be a deadly addiction if you aren’t careful. Gain a token every time a survivor dies.

2 tokens: Attack recovery speed is moderately reduced (including missed attacks), and walking speed is moderately increased. 

3 tokens: Attack recovery speed is greatly reduced (including missed attacks), and walking speed is greatly increased.

“Can’t stop now, we’ve almost completed the plan.” -William Afton

Security measures: When working with machines, you are always on a time crunch. When outside of the killer’s terror radius, generator repair speed is slightly decreased, and the chance of skill checks appearing is greatly increased. The effect is nullified when repairing inside the killer’s terror radius.

“Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, with even tighter security than before!” - Phone Guy

Springtrap: Working with machines can prove fatal. After completing a generator inside the killer’s terror radius, the machinery will snap and injure a fully healed survivor. (Unless the survivor is already injured.) Springtrap can be activated once every 120 seconds.

“Oh yeah, the Spring Bonnie suit is out of bounds until further notice. Something about the springs being overly fragile and fatal.” - Management

Part 3: The map

I hope you liked my killer idea! Next, the map. I think it’s only suitable to have the Freddy Fazbear’s pizzeria in the game. While springtrap appears in the third game, the first restaurant is the most iconic, and could be scaled larger to fit a map size. It would be another indoor map, with perhaps booths to get windows in and maybe additional private party rooms to work with, linked to bathrooms, kitchens and more. It would be pretty tricky to put in a proper map, but I’m sure the team could work with it! As a second floor, I suggest maybe vents for survivors to crouch through and a lighting platform above the main stage and the main middle eating room. 

That’s all I’ve got! Please let me know if the concept is good, or needs tweaking. I’m new to this but I’d be happy to make more concepts if you’d like me to! I’ll provide a chapter overview below:

The Five Nights at Freddy’s chapter in dead by daylight provides a brand new killer, The Amalgamation, who excels at tracking down survivors and hindering machinery. The new map, Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzaria, provides a childish yet haunting atmosphere, filled with vent shafts for survivors to hide in and crawl through, chilling secret rooms where ungodly actions took place, and, of course, lots of pizza.